Steve Dobrogosz (born 26 January 1956 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is an American composer, songwriter and pianist.
Dobrogosz is the son of Walter Dobrogosz and Donna Bartone [1] and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and afterwards moved to Stockholm, Sweden in 1978, where he began recording and performing. [2] Dobrogosz continues to reside in Stockholm.
Dobrogosz's over 1500 compositions span several genres, including jazz, pop, and classical. He has written a number of popular choral compositions, including Mass (1992) which has been performed in over 40 countries.
He has collaborated with singers such as Radka Toneff, Jeanette Lindström, Berit Andersson and Anna Christoffersson. His albums with Christoffersson, It's Always You and Rivertime, were nominated for the Grammis Award in the jazz album category. His 1982 album with Radka Toneff, Fairy Tales, was named best Norwegian album of all time in a 2012 Norwegian artist poll.
He is married to Swedish flutist Katarina Fritzén. They have three sons, including Jonathan Fritzén, a contemporary jazz pianist and multi-instrumentalist.
Discography
- Songs (1980)
- Confessions (1981)
- Fairytales (1982) with Radka Toneff
- The Child's Gift (1986) with Steve Dobrogosz Vocal Ensemble
- Pianopieces (1994) solo, duets with Petur Östlund
- Duckwalk (1996)
- Mass and Chamber Music (1997) with St. Jacob's Chamber Choir
- Ebony Moon (1998)
- Best of Dobrogosz and Andersson (1999) with Berit Andersson
- Feathers (2000) with Jeanette Lindstrom
- Requiem/Te Deum (2004) with St. Jacob's Chamber Choir
- It's Always You (2006) with Anna Christoffersson
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (2006) with St. Jacob's Chamber Choir
- Rivertime (2008) with Anna Christoffersson
- My Rose (2009)
- Stream (2009)
- Poems (2007) with Annika Skoglund
- Golden Slumbers (2009)
- Your Songs (2010)
- Covers (2010) with Anna Christoffersson
- World (2010)
- Celebratory Music (2010) with Andrew Canning
- Charts (2011)
- Christmas Cantata (2012) Linköpings Akademiskakören
- The Water of Life (2013)
- Forest (2014)
- Dreams (2014)
- Free Country (2015)
- Sequencer (2015)
- Bara (2015) with Chikako Hino
- The Wild Bird Flies (2016)
- Stabat Mater (2016) Hiroshima Chuo Choir, Nozomi Terasawa
- Silencer (2016)
- Anthology (2017) with Berit Andersson
- Sha-La (2017) Steve Dobrogosz Vocal Ensemble
- Candlelight (2017 additional material)
- The Earth Is Singing (2018) with SYC Ensemble Singers, Jennifer Tham
- Rocking Chair (2019)
- Mood (2020)
- The Gospel Chord (2021)
- Yuletide (2022)
- Almost Live (2022) with Anna Christoffersson
References
- ^ "Dobrogosz, Walter Jerome". www.poles.org. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "Dobrogosz Bio Page".
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